[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 27 September 2019
-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sept. 27, 2019 * NYNY1909.27 - Birds Mentioned EURASIAN WIGEON Yellow-billed Cuckoo AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER Whimbrel HUDSONIAN GODWIT MARBLED GODWIT Stilt Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER Pectoral Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher WILSON’S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE POMARINE JAEGER Parasitic Jaeger Lesser Black-backed Gull Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern NORTHERN FULMAR Cory’s Shearwater Great Shearwater AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER Wilson’s Storm-Petrel Leach’s Storm-Petrel Northern Gannet Red-headed Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Philadelphia Vireo Northern Waterthrush Black-and-White Warbler Tennessee Warbler CONNECTICUT WARBLER Common Yellowthroat American Redstart Cape May Warbler Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Blackpoll Warbler YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT CLAY-COLORED SPARROW LARK SPARROW White-crowned Sparrow BLUE GROSBEAK DICKCISSEL If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to: view Gary Chapin - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 125 Pine Springs Drive Ticonderoga, NY 12883 Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Number: (212) 979-3070 Compiler: Tom Burke Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Gail Benson [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 27, 2019 at 10:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are pelagic trip results including NORTHERN FULMAR, AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER, POMARINE JAEGER and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, EURASIAN WIGEON, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, CONNECTICUT WARBLER, CLAY-COLORED and LARK SPARROWS, DICKCISSEL, BLUE GROSBEAK and more. Last Sunday a pelagic trip organized by See Life Paulagics aboard the Brooklyn VI began a pleasant day on the ocean at water depth of over 7,000 feet, later working back through Hudson Canyon, with highlights including 21 NORTHERN FULMARS, 12 CORY’S, 323 GREAT and 23 AUDUBON’S SHEARWATERS, 1 LEACH’S and 222 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, an adult POMARINE JAEGER, 1 NORTHERN GANNET, 7 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and 6 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES. Though the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge still has too high a water level to attract large numbers of shorebirds, waterfowl numbers continue to build there, with a EURASIAN WIGEON showing up on the pond last Saturday. Despite the conditions, a reasonable selection of shorebirds this week did feature some HUDSONIAN GODWITS, with 5 noted there Monday, while Tuesday produced both a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER and a WILSON’S PHALAROPE. Among the other shorebirds there have been a few STILT, PECTORAL, and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, with a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER also identified there last Sunday. Roughly 4 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS also continue along Santapogue Creek off Venetian Boulevard in West Babylon. At Jerome Reservoir in the Bronx, drained for the second time recently, there were still 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS present Monday, 2 on Tuesday, and a STILT SANDPIPER visited there today. Among the shorebirds at Jones Beach West End there were 3 or 4 MARBLED GODWITS seen on the bar off the Coast Guard Station through Monday, with 1 there Wednesday. A GULL-BILLED TERN also visited the bar from Saturday at least to Wednesday, and another GULL-BILLED was noted at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Wednesday. Up to 3 CASPIAN TERNS were at Jones Beach West End over last weekend, and others were reported from Prospect Park Lake last Saturday, Plumb Beach Monday, Jamaica Bay Tuesday, and Smith Point County Park in Shirley Tuesday, the latter site on Tuesday also producing 65 ROYAL TERNS along with 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS offshore. A nice coastal fall flight took place Wednesday morning, witnessed by observers at both Coney Island Creek Park in Brooklyn and at Robert Moses State Park Field 2 on Fire Island. The mix of the most common of the identified WARBLERS varied slightly, but the flight featured good numbers of NORTHERN WATERTHUSH, BLACK-AND-WHITE, TENNESSEE, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, AMERICAN REDSTART, CAPE MAY, NORTHERN PARULA, MAGNOLIA and BLACKPOLL, with lesser numbers of several other species. A CONNECTICUT was identified at Moses Park, and 2 WHIMBREL and a DICKCISSEL were among the other highlights there. Another DICKCISSEL was spotted at Jamaica BayWildlife Refuge last Saturday. A few BLUE GROSBEAKS included one at Moses Park Saturday to Tuesday, another at Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers Tuesday, and 1 at Sunken Meadow State Park Thursday. A LARK SPARROW was reported from Midland Beach on Staten Island Wednesday, and CLAY-COLORED SPARROW featured singles at Moses Park last Saturday, and on Wednesday at Lido Beach Passive Preserve and Pelham Bay Park. A few YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS included birds at Moses Park Sunday and Tuesday, at the Avalon Preserve in Ston
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Fri. Sept. 27, 2019: Y-b Cuckoo, Lincoln's Sparrow, 15 Warbler Species incl. Tennessee & Cape May
Central Park NYC - North End & Ramble Friday, September 27, 2019 OBS: Deborah Allen, Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Lincoln's Sparrow, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 15 Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee, Cape May, Prairie & Black-throated Green Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Great Crested Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Canada Goose - 11 Harlem Meer Mallard - 40+ American Black Duck - Upper Lobe Mourning Dove - at least 2 dozen Yellow-billed cuckoo - Tupelo Field Chimney Swift - 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4 (1 at the Pool (Peter Haskel), 3 at the Oven) Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - Lake Great Blue Heron - flying around over the Pool & perched Bald Eagle - flyover north end (Vicki Seabrook) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (perched at the Loch, 2 flyovers) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 Upper Lobe Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 8 Great Crested Flycatcher - heard Strawberry Fields Eastern Wood-Pewee - 8 Empidonax Flycatcher - Tupelo field Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Persimmon Slope & West Blowdown) Red-eyed Vireo - 8 Blue Jay - 10-12 American Crow - 3 together over Fort Clinton House Wren - 3 Winter Wren - 2 (Pool (David Barrett), Ramble) Carolina Wren - 3 (pair Strawberry Fields, heard s. of Nutter's Battery) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4 Veery - east of Swampy Pin Oak in Ramble Swainson's Thrush - 4 Wood Thrush - 3 in Ramble Gray Catbird - 16 Northern Mockingbird - 6 to 8 (most near the North End Compost) Brown Thrasher - a dozen (11 Ramble, 1 Pool (David Barrett)) House Finch - 12 American Goldfinch - 3 (2 Loch, 1 Wildflower Meadow) Song Sparrow - 3 Lincoln's Sparrow - north end of Strawberry Fields Swamp Sparrow - 3 (2 Tupelo Field, 1 Pool (David Barrett)) White-throated Sparrow - 3 North End Common Grackle - around 20 (Turtle Pond & Ramble) Ovenbird - 3 (2 Ramble, 1 Great Hill) Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Turtle Pond & Upper Lobe) Black-and-white Warbler - 12 Tennessee Warbler - 3 (1 Pool (Dan S.), 2 west side of Great Hill) Common Yellowthroat - 6 American Redstart - 17 (2 adult males) Cape May Warbler - 3 west side of the Pool (Vicki Seabrook & Peter Haskel) Northern Parula - 17 Magnolia Warbler - 9 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 (Loch, Humming Tombstone, Upper Lobe) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 females Palm Warbler - 1 North End Compost (reported earlier by Dennis Newsham) Pine Warbler - 1 Loch Prairie Warbler - 1 North End Compost (reported earlier by Dennis Newsham) Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 east of Belvedere Castle Scarlet Tanager - 2 males (Swampy Pin Oak & Tupelo Field) Northern Cardinal - 9 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 8 or 9, others heard Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Jones Beach: Marbled Godwits, Gull-billed Tern, Empi
There are now 4 Marbled Godwits in the Jones Beach area. They were embedded in the large Oystercatcher roost, which this morning was on the outer part of the sand spit near the Coast Guard station. All left about half way down on the falling tide. One reason for going there today was to hopefully catch up with the lingering Gull-billed Tern. As late is it now is for one to be around, I suspected (and actually had seen a distant photo of it) that it would be in a plumage that I didn't have. After a previous trip in which I only saw it as a fly by, I succeeded in getting pictures today. It looks to me to be a molting adult, not all the way into winter plumage. If I'm wrong, my tern guru will let me know. I posted a picture at my web site (http://stevewalternature.com/ ). I also posted pictures of an Empidonax flycatcher (one of the very few migrants that I came across). Sadly, after many years of birding, I can't say that I've mastered expertise in these guys (and I don't have an Empi guru). When I looked at the pictures, I got the impression of a buffy wash on the belly. But surely, that must be yellow? As in Yellow-bellied Flycatcher? But it doesn't strike me as that, and it is kind of late. Acadian? Gotta study up on primary projections. Steve Walter Bayside, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Stilt sandpiper Jerome reservoir
There is currently one stilt sandpiper with a few killdeer and a lesser yellowlegs in the tub at Jerome resevior.a rare visitor to the bronx but seen often on the island and Jamaica bay.spotted by university and reservoir avenues close too the fence.Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] marine nature study area-Yellow-breasted Chat
A Yellow-breasted Chat, 2 Marsh Wrens and a Common Yellowthroat were hiding in a series of shrubs along the trail just past the bridge at the north end of the pond. They finally came out for looks, but only the wren stayed long enough to get a picture. Sy Schiff -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
